Apparently according to a poster at Cheapassgamer, that will be the Black Friday holiday bundle and will go for $199. Very tempting but Ive been without a PS3 for too long. I will be getting the AC3 500gb bundle this Tuesday

I was at BB earlier this week and saw that they had it in teh add with a free BR remote and I got them to do a price adjustment where they knocked $25 off my original purchase and put it on a gift card to buy the remote. Since I already have a remote and dont need it, I just returned it for store credit, so I managed to get it for $275 which made me feel better about not waiting for this BF deal. I figured had I done that, Id be paying at least $60 for a 500gb HDD upgrade and then $35 for AC3, so it'd have come out to about the same anyway, since I would have traded the Uncharted dual pack in

I have one. The fan is crazy loud and the system gets really really hot

Guys get an original slim while you can - This one is soo cheap and toy like.

I think they messed up the internal cooling with this design.

Just wanna clear this up for anyone that didnt get it due to this post: this is untrue. I have the 250gig version, and it runs silently. During the initial data tranfer (took about an hour or so); silent. While playing games; very little sound after about 20 minutes of online play. Easily drowned out by low-volume conversations. And stays between silent and a barely-audible hum throughout my time playing (I only know the hum is there because I turn the TV volume all the way down when I use my headset, so i hear it during the transition if I listen for it. And ofc, when I first got it, i was listening for it.) I even left it on all night to install all of my BF3 expansions (i got premium the same day for $30....Black Friday) and when I woke up the next morning, it was still silent. Its not loud by any means. I have the old fat 80gig as well and THAT thing is loud. I havent had a reason to check the heat, because nothing has alerted me to do so, so i assume it runs pretty cool. Just wanted to clear that up. sorry to necro a thread for my first post......not exactly good manners, i know >.>